The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery (57 page)

26. The War Office in the autumn of 1914 – the scene of Violet’s meeting with General Sir Edward Bethune. The police have cleared a passage through the crowds of men waiting to volunteer to make way for the car at the entrance to the building.

27. General Sir Edward Bethune.

28. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum.

29. John in the courtyard at Arlington Street before leaving for the Front in February 1915.

30. George Gordon Moore.

31. Lady Diana Manners,
c
.1915.

32. Field Marshal Sir John French (
right
) picnics with his ADC, Lt.-Col. Fitzgerald Watt, on the Western Front in June 1915.

33. Field Marshal Sir John French in his dress uniform.

34. Walking wounded at Vermelles, during the later stages of the Battle of Loos.

35. OFFICERS OF THE 4TH LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT AT LUTON, OCTOBER 1914

Back row: 2/Lt. G.E.F. Russell
*
, 2/Lt. J.F. Johnson
*
, 2/Lt. W.N. Dunn, Lt. G.A. Brogden, 2/Lt. F.M. Waite.
Next row: 2/Lt. M.B. Douglas, 2/Lt. H.F. Papprill, Lt. J.G. Abell, Lt. F.N.Tarr
*
, Lt. W.B. Jarvis, Lt. G.J. Harvey, Lt. A. Silver, 2/Lt. H.C. Brice
*
, Lt. F.S. Parr, Lt. A.E. Ball.
Next row: Capt. R.A. Faire
*
, Capt. B.F. Newill, Capt. A.C. Cooper
*
, Maj. L.V. Wykes, Lt.-Col. W.A. Harrison, Capt. R.S. Dyer-Bennet, Capt. T.P. Fielding-Johnson, Capt. J.C. Baines, Capt. H. Haylock
*
.
Front row: Lt. T. Whittingham
*
, 2/Lt. A.C. Clarke
*
, 2/Lt. R.C. Harvey
*
, 2/Lt. L. Forsell
*
.

*
Killed in action, 1915. Of the other officers, all were wounded on 13 October 1915, the day the North Midland Division incurred 3,700 casualties.

36. Goldfish Château, where John had tea with General Pulteney on 5 July 1915, the day his war diary stopped.

37. Gassed soldiers at Casualty Clearing Station No. 8, Bailleul, which John visited on 2 May 1915.

38. General Edward Stuart Wortley.